Wordly Wise 8 Lesson 11

Front 1

Augment

Back 1

To increase in size amount or degree

Front 2

Benign

Back 2

Kind gracious or gentle

2. Favorable and not threatening

Front 3

Connoisseur

Back 3

A person with extensive knowledge especially of the Fine Arts a person of refined taste

Front 4

Discern

Back 4

To detect with the eyes

2. To understand or comprehend

3. To recognize a separate or different

Front 5

Embellish

Back 5

To make Beautiful by adding decorative elements

2. To add fictitious details to

Front 6

Execute

Back 6

To carry out to perform

2. To create as a work of art

3. To put to death as a legal penalty

Front 7

Exemplify

Back 7

To illustrate by being an example of

Front 8

Grotesque

Back 8

So distorted or strange as it appears bizarre or comical

Front 9

Hallowed

Back 9

Greatly respected

Front 10

Impersonate

Back 10

To assume the character of or appearance of

2. 2 mimic

Front 11

Malevolent

Back 11

Showing ill will or hatred producing harm or evil

Front 12

Ornate

Back 12

Heavily and elaborately decorated

Front 13

Pastoral

Back 13

Having to do with Shepherds and herders

2. Related to Country Life and often presented as charmingly simple

Front 14

Precarious

Back 14

Not safe and secure and dangerously uncertain

Front 15

Renowned

Back 15

Fame and honor